How many of us are up to date on the Health Care Reform Bill, or can talk with confidence about the newest developments in the war in Iraq? Probably most of us. Both of these topics have full-time news coverage and representatives speaking out to make the ideas and beliefs of these subjects known. Unfortunately, there is a very important group who is going unheard. A group that is unable to help themselves or speak out for themselves. This group is the children who are being shuffled through Child Protective Service Agencies. The agencies that are supposed to protect these children have been making mistakes, placing children back into dangerous situations, forgetting children because of lack of continuity in case processes, and some needed cries for help have just been going unanswered. The problem isn’t the caseworkers; the problem is the unattainable workload. Finally, the caseworkers have had enough and caseworkers are making their situation known; giving a voice to the children who have been wronged by the mismanaged system and informing the public on problems that have, until now, been kept quiet.

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Prodagio Software products have just been included in two new industry analyst reports by Gartner and Forrester. Both firms list Prodagio Contracts as a leading offering in the Contracts Management space. In their latest research, Forrester has recognized our ability to provide both the benefits of content management and transactional contract capabilities.

Forrester Research – Prodagio Contracts

Predictions 2009: ePurchasing Market, Andrew Bartels, 30 March 2009.

“Imagitek leverages its EMC Documentum relationship to move into CLM. Imagitek has had an offering in the EIPP space for a number of years with its Prodagio A/P product. In 2005, it added a CLM product, Prodagio Contracts, to its procure-to-pay suite. Prodagio Contracts has 30 clients, including global, publicly traded corporations, state and local governments, and international clients. The product includes a flexible data model, business processes, integration technology, and an enterprise content management component built on EMC Documentum. As a result, the product combines contract terms-and-conditions architecture for integration with transaction systems and clause-level control over contract creation, negotiation, and management of contract obligations with the leverage of a leading ECM platform. Imagitek has also recognized the SaaS trend and delivers both hosted and on-premise solutions.”

Gartner – Prodagio AP

Procurement and the Oracle E-Business Suite, Debbie Wilson, 5 March 2009.

Gartner highlights Imagitek as a best-of-breed alternative to Oracle’s Procurement Applications. Prodagio Software is particularly relevant against Oracle in situations where multiple ERPs and backend systems exist or for shared services where consolidation across business units is required.

On February 18, 2009 at 1pm EST, Imagitek, Ltd. will be hosting a live webcast: “An Invoice is a Demand on your Cash – Why Take Chances?”

This important event will focus on the things AP managers and finance executives can do to ensure invoice integrity and gain better visibility over financial obligations.

The event is free. To learn more and register, visit Prodagio AP webcast.

We are delighted to announce Prodagio Contract’s debut ranking on the 2008 Gartner MarketScope for Contracts Management. This report highlights the top vendors in the contracts management application space. In a field of 24 entrants, only 13 were selected by Gartner as having met the criteria needed for inclusion.

Prodagio Contracts debuts in its first year on the list with strengths listed as:
• References report routine use for tracking and documenting revisions during negotiations.
• Robust workflow with concurrent review steps, rules-based variations and the ability to add reviewers ad hoc.
• Fuzzy search, search within search, search of attachments, full-text search.
• Post-execution support including milestone tracking & alerting, schedule tracking, documentation of related correspondence and calendar integration.
• Security with access restricted by business division, contract type, user role and department.

The full report is available to Gartner clients as G00161534 at www.gartner.com.

Prodagio A/P was covered in a new research paper by Gartner, released on December 11, 2008. The paper, entitled “Accounts Payable Invoice Automation” discusses how companies can augment their ERP AP processes to include more of the upfront business processes, including document and electronic transaction capture, workflow approval routing and analytics. According to Gartner, this is a ripe area for achieving value. Gartner clients can find the document G00163833 at www.gartner.com.

It was a rare treat to see Endeavour fly over the office on its way back from California. In this case, some bad weather in Florida provided this rare glimpse of the Shuttle enjoying first-class service atop a 747.